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More recently, the synergistic contributions of cannabidiol to cannabis pharmacology and analgesia have been scientifically demonstrated. Other phytocannabinoids, including tetrahydrocannabivarin, cannabigerol and cannabichromene, exert additional effects of therapeutic interest. Innovative conventional plant breeding has yielded cannabis chemotypes expressing high titres of each component for future study. This review will explore another echelon of phytotherapeutic agents, the cannabis terpenoids: limonene, myrcene, α-pinene, linalool, β-caryophyllene, caryophyllene oxide, nerolidol and phytol.

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THC has already been legalized in the US in the form of Marinol (currently only synthetic THC is used, however the DEA may reschedule organic THC for use in generic versions of Marinol).

Organic THC and CBD may be next for FDA approval in the form of Sativex.

We need more studies involving whole plant cannabis, including all potentially therapeutic phytocannabinoids and other terpenoids contained in cannabis. That is how we will get cannabis rescheduled instead of just the "components" of cannabis.

The popular opinion amongst medical cannabis patients seems to be that the "legal" forms of cannabis medicine (Marinol, Sativex, etc...) are just not as effective as, or have more side effects than whole plant cannabis.